About us
As the dedicated charity for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, we help our mental, community and social services do more to fund enhanced support, projects, and services usually outside the scope of the NHS.
Together, we believe we can enhance and exceed expectations of the health, care and wellbeing available to the people we serve; helping the NHS go further.
Offering specialist services in physical and mental health, learning disabilities and addictions services; The Mersey Care NHS Charity exists to enhance life-long health, care and wellbeing support in our communities to help people keep well and living well at home for longer.
1. We want ZERO suicide
We support the education and awareness surrounding mental health and suicide prevention to empower change within our communities. Through the Zero Suicide Alliance, we want to empower, educate, and equip individuals and organisations to support suicide awareness and prevention.
2. We want equal health and a life beyond services
We want to extend innovative social support and recovery programmes to address social inequality, increase confidence, skills and connection to all and promote recovery beyond services within our communities. We want to develop new, innovate and collaborative social and community-based models to improve health, promote recovery and address further social factors such as housing, education, employment and social connection that can lead to heath deterioration.
3. We want to enhance our support for our carers
We want to develop services that can help improve the emotional and physical wellbeing of carers within our communities We want to offer further support within our partner carer centres and offer practical resources and equipment for carers for their own self care.
4. We want to reduce the pressue on NHS staff
We want to support staff and volunteers struggling with their mental health, wellbeing and/or financial hardship by working collaboratively within our communities to provide essentail services, funding things like intensive psychological support, spaces for exhausted staff to rest during busy shifts, training for volunteers and essential items for those in hardship.
The Zero Suicide Alliance is hosted by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and made possible by The Mersey Care NHS Charity; the dedicated charity for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Mersey Cares, The Mersey Care NHS Charity, is the dedicated charity for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (Registration number 1191576)
